George Vondriska

Tools We Love: Saddle Square

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George Vondriska talks about why he likes using a saddle square on his woodworking projects that require wrapping guidelines around a corner. You’ll be amazed how much easier it is than using a conventional square!

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6 Responses to “Tools We Love: Saddle Square”

  1. mobilearth

    Hi George, Love your site. The short commercials are tolerable, but with premium membership those 20-30 second commercials are pretty cumbersome.

  2. Jim White

    Good start on using the saddle square, George, but if you want ACCURATE layout, use your marking knife with the saddle square. Supplement your pencil marks on your story pole with a knife tick on the edge. Use this tick mark to align with your work pieces using the saddle square. Now all of your pieces will have dead-on alignment of their layout marks. I have this saddle square and love it!

  3. Dean

    I have a saddle square from Bridge City Tool Works, which has the advantage of folding in the middle, which allows marking lines on a piece where the two sides are not 90 degrees. Very useful tool.

  4. abt

    I use the center-finding head from my Starrett rules. It works quite well, and I can save some cash because of it's dual use capability.

  5. rdfInOP

    I've had one for years and it's useful enough to me that I keep it in the pocket of my apron along with a utility knife and not much else.

  6. Dan Roper

    Thanks George. I have never gone to the expense of purchasing one of these since I have a "center finder" attachment for one of my combination squares. When I replaced the square, I kept the attachment to use for layout just as you showed. Dan

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